Portable Graphics Library for C/C++ Programmers

Toolmaster agX is the preferred cross-platform graphics library by leading software houses and in-house application development teams around the world. For FORTRAN programmers, AVS offers FGL/AGL, which provides equivalent functionality to the agX C library.

The Toolmaster agX library of more than 500 C functions extends the underlying window system with application graphics and presentation-quality hardcopy, supporting a wide range of data formats and chart types through a high-level API.

Even without X or Windows programming experience, you can quickly add sophisticated graphics to your applications, and can integrate Toolmaster agX functions with Windows GUI builders to further reduce application development time.

Seamless Integration for X and Windows

Toolmaster agX provides application portability across a range of platform and operating system architectures encompassing desktop machines to supercomputers. All Toolmaster agX functions are fully implemented and compatible across UNIX/Linux, Windows, and Windows NT (Windows compilers supported through 32 bit DLL). Toolmaster agX is regularly updated to the latest OS and system software versions, providing programmers with an up-to-date graphics environment from which to develop cross-platform production applications.

All Toolmaster graphics transform into drawing primitives optimized for the selected window system. Further, you can build highly interactive applications by combining agX graphics with window- and event-handling operations.

Developer and Deployment Friendly

Comprehensive set of application-level functions for 2D and 3D data presentation.

Complete developer control over all chart layout and appearance parameters.

Open event loop for interactive application development with X and Windows.

Presentation-quality hardcopy and metafile output.

UNIX/Linux and Windows availability.

Proven at more than 1,500 customer sites worldwide.

Gsharp is AVS’s solution for end-user technical data analysis and presentation and is based on Toolmaster.

FLOWMAPS: Graphical display of multi-dimensional data represented by arrows, rose glyphs, or any symbol from the character library, with symbol mapping at minimum and maximum thresholds.

GRIDS: Functions for quick visual analysis of irregular and regular data as 2D scatter and grid displays, or 3D and 4D grid displays. Select average, minimum, or maximum value for shading multiple points in a cell.

IMAGE: Vertical and horizontal display of image data, real or integer, with no limits on number of colors. Provides optimal mapping to image, cell array, or rectangle drawing primitive on selected output device.